1950 concept cars

The s cars of tomorrow featured ideas with the promise of progress during the jet age. Check out these lesser-known concept cars.

These cool concept cars from the 50s look like they came straight out of a space age comic book - but why didn't these concepts go in to production?.

The s and s Edsel concept cars were far more ambitious than what came to showrooms. See pictures of s and s Edsel concept cars.

The concept car concept is translated as "the idea of a car". This is a kind of prototype car, which tests people's reactions to new technologies being introduced, design solutions, etc. In its original form, prototypes are never launched into mass production.

What do you think? The Nucleon was more of an exercise than anything with serious intent—Ford's idea was to show what vehicles might look like once nuclear reactors were small enough for personal use. Love vehicles of Any Kind? A woman takes her motionless dog to the vet, only for him to confirm that he is in fact dead. Elon Musk is nothing short of one of the world's leading visionaries, and he has now decided to solve traffic.

Forgotten Dreams: Lesser-known s concept cars - Old Cars Weekly

There were a lot of influences on the decade of the s. The world was just starting to get over the horrors of World War II and they were dealing with the fears resulting from the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

The Russians were the first to launch an artificial satellite into orbit around the Earth and the jolt of that feat opened all of us to the space age. Space, that new frontier, was influencing interior design. Ceiling lamps looked like the Russian satellite Sputnik that was launched in October and, as you can see here, futuristic car concepts resembled rockets or jet fighters.

What do you think? Did the designers nail it or have these concepts that once wowed only elicit a yawn today. Scroll down to begin viewing the list. It looks like it can lift up and hover over the street like a future spacecraft. A fighter jet may have inspired the designer of this concept, the second of four that included turbine-power. This was meant to be a concept of a future family car with self-driving capability due to wires embedded in the street.

Designer Alex Tremulis no doubt also had a jet in mind when he created this concept. Tremulis was actually a famous designer of the time who actually did drawings of flying saucers for the U.

This what he thought a car of the year would look like. This Cadillac concept actually looks pretty reasonable like a two-seater Thunderbird or a British sports car from the s Triumph or MGB? Harley Earl, the designer of the Corvette as well as other production models, conjured up this concept. Harley Earl designed this concept, too. Those black cones up front actually contained a small radar that was to serve as an anti-crash detection system. That box on the bed at the rear of the vehicle is supposed to be a nuclear reactor.

Hence the name, the Ford Nucleon. Three cars were made over a three year period —- the BAT 5, 7 and 9. This copy of a supersonic jet had titanium skin and turbine power. The development of the shape of this two-seater was the result of hours of work in a wind tunnel.

There are seven wings integrated into the car and they are actually functional. I have been wrecking cars for as long as I've been driving them but I keep coming back for more.

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